Tips

A couple tricks to copy files from a remote server through an intermediate gateway; useful when you don't have direct access to the remote server but the gateway does.

FileVault2 makes it easy to fully encrypt the main drive, but if you want to migrate your home directory to a second drive also encrypted, you are normally out of luck. Here's a workaround to achieve exactly this.

Tired of slow backups and restores of large MySQL databases with mysqldump? Setting up a replication slave? Want to work more easily with remote MySQL instances and automate backup/restore tasks? Then you can't miss these useful tips!

If you happen to use Google Translate often and always have a terminal open, here's is how to easily use the API from the command line, rather than from within a browser.

If you often use Google's "define" search feature to search for the definition of a word or a phrase, here's a tip on how to use it more quickly from the terminal, rather than from within a browser.

Got poor DNS with your Internet Service Provider? No worries - here's how to speed up your web browsing experience with alternative DNS servers (such as OpenDNS, Google Public DNS and similar) and a local cache with Bind.